Jack Levine, George Segal, Audrey Flack, Larry Rivers, and R. B.
Kitaj have long been considered central artists in the canon of
twentieth-century American art: Levine for his biting paintings and
prints of social conscience, Segal for his quiet plaster figures
evoking the alienation inherent in modern life, Flack for her
feminist photorealist canvases, Rivers for his outrageous pop art
statements, and Kitaj for his commitment to figuration. Much less
known is the fact that at times, all five artists devoted their
attention to biblical imagery, in part because of a shared Jewish
heritage to which they were inexorably tied.
Taking each artist as an extensive case study, Jewish Artists
and the Bible in Twentieth-Century America uncovers how these
artists and a host of their Jewish contemporaries adopted the Bible
in innovative ways. Indeed, as Samantha Baskind demonstrates, by
linking the past to the present, Jewish American artists customized
the biblical narrative in extraordinary ways to address modern
issues such as genocide and the Holocaust, gender inequality,
assimilation and the immigrant experience, and the establishment
and fate of the modern State of Israel, among many other pertinent
concerns.
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